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The Gaslamp Fantastic: Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells edited by Ellen Datlow...
Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells is an anthology of gaslamp fantasy—stories set in or around the world of nineteenth-century Victorian England—edited by the ever-dynamic Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling....
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LGBTQ Characters: If They’re In My Life They Should Be in the Fiction I Read
I started reading romance—full-bore (eh heh), graphic romance—when I was eleven or so. At that time, I’d come off a science-fiction and fantasy YA kick and moved to historical adventures of all...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 15, “The Gathering of the Clouds”
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter reread of The Hobbit. You can find past posts at the reread index, or you can catch up with our previous reread of The Lord of the Rings. As always, the...
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The Sookie Stackhouse Reread: Book 3, Club Dead
Welcome back to the next installment in our Sookie Stackhouse series reread. This week we have the third book in Charlaine Harris’s New York Times bestselling series, Club Dead.As we begin our story,...
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Blood of Dragons (Excerpt)
Check out Robin Hobb's Blood of Dragons, next in the Rain Wilds Chronicles, out on April 9 from Harper Voyager:Years ago, the magnificent dragon queen Tintaglia forged a bargain with the inhabitants of...
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5 Nutty Things (and One Serious) About Stephen King’s Shining Sequel Doctor...
Retirees tooling around the country in your RVs...you’re on notice.Doctor Sleep, the Stephen King novel sequel to The Shining, is due to arrive on September 24th from Scribner Books and will follow a...
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The Last Excursions into Fantasy: The Minpins and the Vicar of Nibbleswicke
As a kind of final round up of Roald Dahl’s fiction before we get to the movies based on Dahl’s fiction, two short reviews of Dahl’s last works: The Minpins and The Vicar of Nibbleswicke. Reviews short...
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Steven Brust Loved His New Incrementalists Cover So Much He Wrote You a Song...
How much did Steven Brust like the cover of his forthcoming collaboration with Skyler White, The Incrementalists? This much: he wrote a song in persona as the author who’s head-over-heels about their...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Requiem”
Season 7, Episode 22: “Requiem”Original Airdate: May 21, 2000This is how it ends. Not with a voiceover, or with a Grey. Not even with an ending, because yeah, no, no, “Requiem” is not the end of The...
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Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells Sweepstakes!
The reprint from Jane Yolen was a lovely treat, but we're sure you would prefer to get your hands on this whole book... So don't miss out on Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, ten copies right here...
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First Trailer for Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
Joss Whedon's take on Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, has just released its first trailer. Featuring Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion and more, this is a Whedon-fan's dream!...
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The Lost (Excerpt)
Take a peek at The Lost, the second book in Vicki Pettersson’s Celestial Blues series, out on March 19 from Harper Collins:Griffin Shaw and his wife were both murdered fifty years ago. Now a minor...
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Star Wars News is Driving Everyone Crazy
Yesterday, news was reported that Carrie Fisher is definitely, totally going to be in Star Wars Episode VII (presumably as Princess Leia.) But then today counter reports came out claiming she was “just...
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Morning Roundup: RoboCop Rides a Unicorn
Sadly, this is not a scene from the new RoboCop reboot movie, but instead, something directly from our dreams. Don’t worry, this unicorn is a Pegasus unicorn, and thus magic and able to sustain the...
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The Folding Knife Reread: Chapter One
Welcome back to the reread of K.J. Parker’s The Folding Knife. Please join in as I go prodding about in the guts of this compact fantasy epic.Previous entries (or entry, as the case may be) can be...
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Quarter Quell Victors Join The Anti-Snow Rebellion In Latest Capitol Portraits
The revolution in Panem is coming up roses! In every piece of Catching Fire promotional material so far, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has been seen gripping white roses. Now, with the release...
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Skyrim is the Antithesis of Pen and Paper RPGS and That’s a Good Thing
Everything that makes The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim such an amazing game is exactly the same stuff that I dislike in pen-and-paper role-playing games. You can learn a lot from Skyrim about how, well, not...
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Visit Oz Before James Franco Got There
We couldn’t think of recent Sam Raimi Oz reinterpretation Oz the Great and Powerful Starring James Franco as James Franco without thinking fondly of the massive, amazing Oz reread that writer Mari Ness...
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What’s Reading For Part 2: Books Do Furnish a Mind
My post What’s Reading For? developed a lively comment thread in which the majority endorsed my Epicurean view that “Reading is usually the most fun I can have at any given moment.” But there were some...
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Catch Jay Lake Reading Tonight at Powell’s!
Award-winning author Jay Lake will appear at Powell’s at Cedar Hill’s Crossing in Beaverton, OR, at 7 p.m. tonight! Jay will be reading from his new novel, Kalimpura. Recently, writers like Mary...
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